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- This writer went on a campervan trip to Iceland in the dead of winter over the New Years holiday of 2020. She writes about why this was a bad idea – yet how it changed her as a traveller.
- “I can’t wait to see snow for the first time!”
- “Even the locals wouldn’t campervan in winter”
- Diarrhea in a blizzard
- Can you get frostbite on your eyeballs?!
- “Where are you, Aurora?”
- We are the crazy ones
“Where are you, Aurora?”

One of the main reasons I agreed to go to Iceland in winter like a crazy person was because this was the best time to see the Northern Lights. Alas, the weather was so bad (another blizzard shut down the airport and delayed our flight home by a day!) that we never got to see it. But we saw so many other breathtaking sceneries, like this sunset.